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...huge screen on the Caesars Palace stage reveals a Nevada billboard bearing a poster of Bette Midler. She's posed in a cute blue dress with a short skirt that shows off her indestructibly fabulous gams; her smile is so electric it could light every casino on the Strip. A donkey wanders past, seemingly unimpressed, as, in the distance, a storm gathers strength. It morphs into a tornado, sending croupiers and chorines whizzing across the skyscape like Miss Gulch over Kansas. The door to an airborne Port-A-Potty swings open and an Elvis impersonator falls out. Now the video...
...Thirty years ago my audiences were on drugs," she confides. "Now they're on medication." Frequently she complains that she hasn't got the old energy. "Omigod I'm exhausted!" she apostrophizes after her very first number - adding, in re certain pop-star lip-synchers who've played the Strip, "That's what happens when you do your own songs...
...Israeli government is under mounting pressure from civilians living within range of Gaza's rocket barrages, and from right-wing politicians, to launch a major ground offensive inside the coastal strip that houses 1.5 million Palestinians. Israel, strongly supported by Washington, has tightened its siege on Gaza in the hope of stopping the constant rocket attacks...
...bringing the ball down the court for the Crimson, Princeton rotating the ball around the perimeter nicely, Koncz pulls up for the three....and misses. Harvard with the ball, Harris backing his defender down, puts up a wayward shot but gets hacked on the wrist. Two from the charity strip. They can take the lead here with two successful free throws. Harris calmly makes both, Harvard regains the lead. [Harvard 26, Princeton...
...shiver, of art. It was the pole dancing, though, that really convinced me. Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey had a cloud of puckish hair and dark-painted eyes, and she explained that the strip club had asked her to pick a stripper name. What she chose, she explained, was Bridget, her sister’s confirmation name and the patron saint of childbirth. At first this seemed a little sacrilegious. But then Markey started to sing. She was topless, in gold panties and leather...